Stalinism

Stalinism is a theory in communism that advocates state terror, a centralized state, collectivization of agriculture, rapid industrialization, cult of personality in the leadership, class conflict, political violence, and ultranationalism. The theory is named for Joseph Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1953, whose reign of terror in the USSR led to many people being forced into having Stalinist sympathies. Since his death, Nikita Khrushchev enacted De-Stalinization to remove traces of Stalinism in the USSR, and Stalinism has died down since the 1950s and 60s.